The Presidents of the United States
James S. Baillie, American, active 1838 - 1855
1844
Hand colored lithograph on paper
Image: 12 1/2 × 9 5/16 in. (31.8 × 23.7 cm)
Sheet: 18 3/16 × 13 7/16 in. (46.2 × 34.2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College
PR.X.507
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in stone, upper left: From 1797 to 1801 1 Term / JOHN ADAMS.; inscribed, in stone, upper center: From 1789 to 1797 2 Terms / GEO. WASHINGTON.; inscribed, in stone, upper right: From 1801 to 1809 2 Terms / THO.S[s in superscript] JEFFERSON.; inscribed, in stone, upper center left: From 1809 to 1817 2 Terms / JAMES MADISON.; inscribed, in stone, upper center: Declaration of Independence. [above interior scene]; inscribed, in stone, upper center right: From 1817 to 1825 2 Terms / JAMES MONROE.; inscribed, in stone, lower center left: From 1825 to 1829 1 Term / JOHN Q. ADAMS.; inscribed, in stone, lower center: From 1829 to 1837 2 Terms / ANDREW JACKSON.; inscribed, in stone, lower center right: From 1837 to 1841 1 Term / MARTIN VAN BUREN.; inscribed, in stone, lower left: Inaug.td [td in superscript] 4th [th in superscript] March Died April 4th [th in superscript] 1841 / W.M [M in superscript] H. HARRISON; inscribed, in stone, lower center: President Elect / JAMES K. POLK.; inscribed, in stone, lower right: From April 4th [th in superscript] 1841 to 1845 1 Term JOHN TYLER.; inscribed, in stone, below portraits: The PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES.; inscribed, in stone, lower left margin: Lith.d [d in superscript] & Pub.d [d in superscript] by J. Baillie 118 Nassau S.t [t in superscript] N.Y.; inscribed, in stone, lower right margin: Sowle & Shaw New Bedford & 52 Cornhill Boston, Mass; inscribed, in stone, lower center margin: Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1844 by J. Baillie in the Clerk's Office in the D.t [t in superscript] Court of the Southern D.t [t in superscript] of N. York.; inscribed, in graphite, lower center: [indistinct] Darthall 45 [crossed out]; reverse, inscribed, in graphite, upper left: Devray Estate 1942
Exhibition History
American Intellectual and Cultural History Through the Civil War, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, History 30, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 10-September 6, 1992.
Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 23-March 21, 1976.
Provenance
Source unknown.
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